NALA JANUARY LUNCHEON

Upcoming Educational Events in Pittsburgh

AAPL has the Fundamentals of Land Practices and Optional RPL Review and Exam set for December 2 and 3 at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel in Pittsburgh at the Marriott.

The RPL exam will be on Saturday. Registration fees for AAPL Members is $275,with non-AAPL Members at $400. The cost for the RPL Review-Exam is $325. Ifinterested, please contact Stephanie Rickels (817) 847-7700 srickels@landman.org.

Also, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has a two-day landman training seminar scheduled on a Saturday and Sunday for November 12-13th. The cost per participant is $499.

Topics to be covered are as follows:

• Oil & Gas Real Estate Law
• Understanding Contracts
• Titles & Abstracts
• Landowner Negotiations.

Attorney Russell L. Schetroma will be present the seminar. Pre-registration and paymentdue by November 4th. Contact Laurie at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (814-362-5078) or email contined@pitt.edu to register.


Christine Dickinson
President - NALA

Pitt-Bradford Two-Day Landman Training Course

NALA LUNCHEON JULY 21, 2011 FOUR POINTS SHERATON

Please join NALA at the Four Points Sheraton in Cranberry/Warrendale on July 21st for a luncheon starting at 11:30. Speaking at the event is Renee Anderson, Esquire with Chevron. Her topic is Pennsylvania Titles 101. Please contact Grace Brace at 814-382-2500 or email her at gbrace@jimbourbeau.com to reserve your seat. Please remember that if you reserve a seat you are obligated to pay whether you show or not, otherwise NALA is stuck with the bill. Hope to see you there!

Field Landman Seminar

NALA AND AAPL TEAM UP TO SPONSOR UPCOMING SEMINAR AND MEETING

On Thursday June 16, 2011, AAPL will be sponsoring, in conjunction with NALA, a Field Landman Seminar in Warren, Ohio, at The Avalon Inn Resort & Conference Center beginning at 3:30 PM and continuing through 8:00 PM. In line with NALA’s continuing push to bring quality education and social programs at very reasonable cost to the area land professionals, this event once again reinforces that commitment. There is no charge to attend the seminar, happy hour, dinner and business session for AAPL members. Reservations, however are mandatory and the attached meeting notice provides the details. For any non-AAPL members, the charge is $50.00 and the fee will then be applied to that attendees initial annual membership charge to join AAPL. The two hour seminar will carry two continuing education credits for any RL’s, RPL’s or CPL attendees, with one being an ethics credit.

It is imperative that you read the meeting flyer attached and take note that the attendee list will be capped at the first 100 people who reserve through the AAPL website as covered in the notice. Additionally, there will be an optional golf outing at The Avalon Lakes Country Club capped at 40 golfers or ten foursomes and registration information for the optional golf outing prior to the meeting is also mentioned in the notice.

NALA is very grateful to AAPL who has made this program available to the area land professionals. NALA continues to seek out quality education and networking events at highly desirable locations and at low cost. We are hopeful you will take advantage of this great opportunity to golf, receive quality educational information, network and hear news of interest to the area land professional. Finally, NALA will be capping the evening by voting on and introducing the new executive committee that will be representing NALA over the upcoming two-year period. All in all, this promises to be a fulfilling day for all. I hope to see all of you there.



Sincerely,

Bernard J. Ulincy
President, NALA


PS: Please do not reserve through Grace at Jim Bourbeau Land Services as you usually do. Reservations for this AAPL sponsored event must go through the AAPL website at www.landman.org as indicated in the attached notice. Your conformance with that mandate is much appreciated. Only potential golfers should reserve through Sally at Reserve Energy at (440) 543-0770.

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW SECTION LEGISLATIVE FORUM AND LUNCHEON

NALA LUNCHEON APRIL 21, 2011 FOUR POINTS SHERATON

UPCOMING NALA LUNCHEON APRIL 21, 2011

It’s that time once again to meet and network with your fellow land professionals as NALA hosts its second Landman’s luncheon of 2011 on Thursday April 21st. This time we meet at The Four Points Sheraton in Warrendale/Cranberry north of Pittsburgh. The address is 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, PA 16046. Their phone number is (724) 776-6900. We start once again at 11:30 with the “meet and greet”, followed by our buffet luncheon at 12:00. Our featured presenter this month is Odon Simoneaux with Wild Well Control speaking on well safety and emergency planning. We should conclude around 1:30. This meeting is being hosted by Seneca Resources.

The cost for the event is $30.00 and can be paid either in advance or at the event. If paying in advance, make your check payable to NALA and mail it to Grace Brace, c/o NALA, P.O. Box 159, Meadville, PA 16335.

Please be sure to RSVP to Grace in advance of this event if you are planning to attend. We will accept reservations up through Monday April 18th. E-mail her at gbrace@jimbourbeau.com or call her at (814) 382-2500. If you make a reservation and do not cancel before Monday the 18th we must have you pay for the luncheon because we are starting to get quite a few reservations that turn into no shows and the association then gets stuck covering the cost for all those who reserve.

At our last luncheon in Southpointe we entertained 72 land professionals. Let’s see if we can surpass that number in Cranberry. Bring a friend along this time. I look forward to seeing you all on the 21st.


Bernie Ulincy
President – NALA

WORKING INTEREST AND NET REVENUE INTEREST CALCULATION WORKSHOP IN PITTSBURGH AND WEST VIRGINIA

http://www.landman.org/WCM/AAPL/EDUCATION/Education_Calendar/Core/Events/eventdetails.aspx?iKey=442WI

http://www.landman.org/WCM/AAPL/EDUCATION/Education_Calendar/Core/Events/eventdetails.aspx?iKey=443WI

AAPL FIELD SEMINAR IN WILLIAMSPORT, PA

AAPL Field Landman Seminar in Williamsport, PA
REGISTER HERE


AAPL invites you to attend a Field Landman Seminar in Williamsport, PA on the evening of April 28, 2011. The Trustees of the AAPL Educational Foundation initiated these events to provide a forum for field landmen to gather for education, networking, and good food, all at no cost to all AAPL current members and $50.00 to non-members attending (which also counts for your first year’s dues as an AAPL member).

This program designed for field landmen to have the opportunity to register to become a member of the AAPL while attending an education seminar. So if you’re a current AAPL member please come and join us and be sure to tell your fellow landman that are not members of AAPL to join you for the event. Visit our website, www.landman.org, and register today!
If you are interested in attending, please fill out the registration form with payment information and fax or email it to Lahoma Long at Fax # 817-546-6441 or email llong@landman.org

ATTENTION: If you are paying by check, please note that AAPL cannot process your registration until the check has cleared: this delays your registration process by at least two days. AAPL recommends that you pay by credit card whenever possible to ensure quick reservation and confirmation.

PLEASE CONTACT LAHOMA LONG or SARAH TINSLEY

AT 817-847-7700 WITH ANY QUESTIONS

LANDMAN PROGRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF PITT/BRADFORD

NALA MARCH DINNER MEETING – MARCH 24th, 2011

NALA members, be sure to mark your calendars for the next meeting of the Northern Appalachian Landman’s Association (NALA) which is scheduled for Thursday evening March 24th at The Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel the evening during the RPL/CPL Review Course that is concurrently being held at that site. This event will present a great opportunity for any Landmen who may be staying at The Marriott to kick back for a bit that evening and network with other land professionals beginning at 5:00 PM that evening with a social hour followed at 6:00 PM by dinner and our business meeting and concluding with an address by Nate Calvert with Chevron who will speak on Hydraulic Fracturing issues.

Additionally, NALA will be introducing to the membership a slate of officers as selected by the nominating committee that will be serving NALA for the next two-year term beginning July 1, 2011. The slate presented at this meeting will then be voted on at the June NALA Dinner Meeting in Warren, Ohio. We will be entertaining additional nominations from the floor to fill out the two at-large members of the executive committee.

Cost for the dinner meeting is $35.00 which includes the dinner and social hour drinks. You may pay in advance or at the event but call or e-mail Grace Brace with Jim Bourbeau Land Services; gbrace@jimbourbeau.com in advance to reserve your place. Grace’s number is (814) 382-2500.

Mark your calendars and join your fellow NALA members and friends for an evening of fellowship, education, drinks and dinner. I hope to see you all there.


Sincerely,

Bernie Ulincy
NALA President


NALA MEETING SCHEDULE

5:00 PM Social Hour
6:00 PM Dinner
6:45 PM NALA Business Meeting
7:00 PM Dinner Speaker – Nate Calvert – Chevron
8:00 PM Close Meeting/Final announcements

NALA LUNCHEON - FEBRUARY 10, 2011, Canonsburg, PA

The Northern Appalachian Landmans Association (NALA) will be holding its first ever luncheon meeting at The Hilton Garden Inn, 1000 Corporate Drive, Canonsburg, PA 15317 on February 10, 2011, beginning at 11:30 AM. The luncheon will be preceded by a short social snack tray gathering followed by a luncheon buffet. The luncheon speaker for the event will be Sean Moran, Attorney with the Law Firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll, Rooney, PC from their Pittsburgh Office. Sean’s topic will be entitled “Marcellus Transactions, Titles and other Trends”. Elexco Land Services, Inc. will be the meeting sponsor. The cost for the luncheon will be $30.00 and you may respond with your reservation notice to Grace Brace at Jim Bourbeau Land Services and you can either send a check in advance to Grace or pay at the event but at least call Grace in advance to reserve your place. Call Grace at (814) 382-2500 or e-mail her at GBrace@jimbourbeau.com

NALA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND DIRECTOR WILL BE NAMED IN 2011

In conformance with NALA’s By-Laws, the Executive Committee of NALA, which is identified as the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary and the Treasurer will be replaced by a vote of the general membership in the June Quarterly Meeting in Warren, Ohio. Ian Lang, NALA’s current Secretary is chairing the Nominating Committee to identify candidates for the offices, which will be submitted to the membership at the March Quarterly Meeting in Pittsburgh.

Currently, Bernie Ulincy is completing a two-year term as NALA President, Christine Dickinson as the Vice-President, Ian Lang as Secretary and Jim Bourbeau as Treasurer, all for the full two-year term. Joe Haas is completing a term as director to AAPL and has indicated he will be stepping down from that role in June. All of the above positions except director shall be decided by a vote of the general membership in June while the new director will be nominated by the Executive Committee. Also, to fill out the Executive Committee for the upcoming new business year commencing July 1, 2011, it will be necessary to elect two additional individuals from the membership to fill out the two additional positions as Executive Committee members which will also be voted on in the June Meeting.

Ian Lang will be moving forward with his role to fill the upcoming positions and may be in contact with you in the near future. In the meantime if you wish to be considered for one of the available upcoming positions as stated above to help serve NALA in a leadership role feel free to contact him at (724) 749-5309 or at: ia_lang@hotmail.com.

NALA will only be as strong as its leadership. With your help it will continue to serve its members and all Land professionals in the northern Appalachian Basin well into the future.

NORTHERN APPALACHIAN LANDMANS ASSOCIATION (NALA) SETS 2011 MEETING SCHEDULE

I am pleased to inform the NALA membership of a very important announcement regarding meeting dates and venues for the current calendar year. As you are all aware, your local Landmans Association has traditionally conducted quarterly dinner meetings throughout the southern tier of New York and the northern tier of Pennsylvania since its inception about 5 years ago. Those meetings have been held at various locations throughout the northern Appalachian region in an effort to better reach the core group of independent Landmen that were working in that region. Though that practice has served NALA and its independent core constituents well over time, it has become evident that recently as more and more company Landmen have relocated to the western Pennsylvania region NALA will need to expand its meetings and services over that additional area to reach out to that very significant contingent.

Recently the NALA Meeting Planning Committee convened its first meeting in Pittsburgh to ponder how best NALA can continue to serve its core independent contract Landman base throughout our region while also trying to reach out to the corporate Landmen now employed throughout the greater Pittsburgh Region. It was with unanimity that the committee decided that NALA should begin to hold monthly luncheon meetings in the Pittsburgh regional area while continuing to conduct its regular regional monthly dinner meetings as we’ve done in the past. Though this move will represent a challenge to cover both luncheons and quarterly dinners throughout the year, NALA has challenged a motivated core group of meeting planning individuals to pledge their time to assist in carrying out the logistics necessary to make these events happen.

Attached to this communication is a list of the meeting dates and locations for the monthly meetings beginning with our initial luncheon on February 10th at the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn. You will note we will conduct our Quarterly Dinner Meetings in March at The Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel during the AAPL CPL/RPL Review and Exam; in Warren, Ohio, a new location for NALA on June 16th, followed by our annual Corning Golf Outing on September 15th and closing out the dinner meetings at the always beautiful Genetti Hotel in downtown Williamsport on November 10th at which we will also hold an education seminar.

The luncheons will rotate between the Southpointe Hilton Garden Inn and the Pittsburgh North Four Points Sheraton during the months that we are not holding our quarterly dinner meetings. As explained earlier, the schedule of meetings for 2011 is set out on the attachment. It is hoped that by setting these meeting dates and locations for the year it will assist you to plan your schedules around the meetings you will want to attend.

In short, your local association is changing to better meet the needs of the Marcellus Landman by staying true to its roots with the dinner meetings while also reaching out to the company Land professionals that are stationed more permanently in the greater Pittsburgh region. Our luncheons will generally begin with a brief social period beginning at 11:30 with snack trays followed by a buffet luncheon and closing with a luncheon speaker who will cover various topics of interest to the Land professionals throughout the region. Meetings should last till around 1:30. Costs will be held to around the $30.00 range. Our dinner meetings will generally revolve around an educational or social event, as they have in the past.

I am hoping to follow-up with another notification to you all within the coming weeks about the meeting specifics with speakers and topics as we get them scheduled. I will try to keep you better informed throughout the year so we can all benefit from the increased meeting scheduling.

Throughout the year be checking back on the NALA website (www.nalalandman.org) from time to time which is where we will be listing many of our meeting updates and notices as well as much regional and national news of interest to the Land professional. All in all, I am very excited as we begin this new year with the networking opportunities ahead and the anticipation of the knowledge to be gained from attending meetings where topics of much land, legal and technical interest are shared. I look forward to seeing you all at many of our meetings throughout the year.



Sincerely,


Bernard J. Ulincy, CPL
NALA President

LANDMAN TRAINING: University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, May 2-5, 2011

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will be offering
Landman Training for those individuals interested in
becoming a landman and for those professionals who
want to gain a better working knowledge of the business
of being a landman.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

• Geology
• Oil & Gas Real Estate Law
• Understanding ContractsTitles & Abstracts
• Landowner Negotiations
• Experienced Landman Panel

Monday 5 /2/11 thru Thursday 5/5/11
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Swarts Hall Room 162
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
$995 Per Participant
Includes all materials
(Breakfast and lunch provided)

This training program is being funded through the North Central
Workforce Investment Board and the PA Department of Labor and
Industry’s Industrial Partnership Training Grant - 75 % of the fee may be
paid by the PA Gas & Oil Extraction Industry Partnership if you qualify.

Pre-Registration: Contact Laurie
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
300 Campus Drive
Bradford, PA 16701
Phone: 814-362-5078
Fax: 814-362-0914
E-mail:contined@pitt.edu